New Delhi: On the backdrop of rising number of rape cases in Uttar Pradesh, National Commission for Women demanded resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. “It’s been ten days since the horrific Badaun gang-rape and murder case but nothing has changed. Over seven gang-rape incidents have been reported since. There are no attempts to curb the rising cases of rape,” NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma said.
“We have demanded the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s resignation over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state,” she said.
“How can he make such an irresponsible statement? After all the evidences, he is making such comments. This is disturbing,” she said.
She also criticized the irresponsible statements made by leaders in UP over the rape incidents.
Sharma also condemned the rape attempt on a woman judge, who was forced to drink insecticide when she resisted the bid, by goons at her government house in Aligarh.
She said that in 2014 alone, more than 2,000 complaints of rape cases have come to NCW from UP and ‘almost 50 percent of them are cases of police apathy’.
According the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), between 2007 and 2012, the number of such crimes rose 12 percent from 20,993 to 23,569.
